Cooling Lime-Cumin Water and Other Summer Pitta-Balancing Tips

The juice of ¼ lime in a cup of cool water with a pinch of cumin powder is also refreshing. • Working in a hot kitchen provokes pitta. If you cook, cook in the early morning or in the evening. If someone cooks three days in a row, on the fourth day you should treat that person to dinner in a restaurant.

This will avoid conflicts in the relationship. • If you customarily drink alcoholic beverages, avoid whiskey, brandy, rum, and red wine, which are heating. Some cool beer during hot days will be all right. • This is a season of generalized low energy.

Thus it is all right to take a short nap in the daytime. • If you have to work outside, wear a wide-brimmed hat. • Wear sunglasses outdoors during the brightest part of the day. Lenses should be smoky gray or green, not red or yellow and especially not blue or purple, which will damage the eyes.

• If you can, work indoors. Have some air conditioning in your car and in your room or office. • Never lie in the sun in summer. If the weather is very hot, don’t wear shorts or short sleeves, but wear loose-fitting clothing to protect your skin.

No person having multiple moles should lie in the sun; it may provoke extreme pitta aggravation and lead to skin cancer. • If you feel really hot, take a swim in a cool lake or pool, then drink a little lime juice in water. • Avoid strenuous exercise. If you are accustomed to running or other vigorous aerobic exercise, do it early in the morning at the coolest part of the day.